Advertising device.



' A. J. CLARK. ADVERTISING DEVICE. I APPLICATION run'n JULY-7,1911.

1,016,212. k Patented Jn. so, 1912.

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man/ms citizen of the United States, and-a residentof Dayton, in the county of Rhea and-Stateof Tennessee, have invented certain'new andmnaaw J; cmmx, or nan-on, TEN'HESSEE;

Specification of better; Patent. Application filed my 7, 1911. "Serial no. 031,293.

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To all whom may concern w Be it known that I, ANDREW J. CLARK, a

useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact-description.

The object of myinvention is to provide an advertising tag or card having means by which it may be attached to posts, trees and other parts, in such a manner that it may swing and sway in the wind, and to'pro' vldewmeans whereby such advertising card or tag may be aflixed at points beyond the reach of the hands, and, in fact, at points which may be deemedto be entirely inac c'essible. lhis object is secured b providing the advertising tag or-card wit a point-.'

ed projectile, to which it is attached bya flexible connection, and by roviding a suit able gun by which the pro ectile and its attached card or tag may be carried throu h the air with a force sufiicient to cause t e projectile to enter the post, tree or other part, leaving the advertising card or tag swaying by its flexible connection;

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which v Figure 1 shows in side elevation the gun for attaching the advertising card, having the stock broken for convenience of illustration, and witha portion of the spring barrel broken away; Fig. 2 is a' partial'longitudinal sectional view, certain parts bein shown in elevation, and showing the projectile with its attached card or tag in the barrel ofthe gun with the parts in position for ejecting the projectile from the barrel; Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2 with the safety deviceremoved from engagement with the trigger I adjust prior to firing; and Fig; 4 is ,a verti'ca" section-taken on the line 4-4 in Fig. 3

The advertising device comprises acard or tag A, upon which may be rinted any suitable advertisement or legen a flexible corda. and a projectile a, the cord being connected at one'end to the card or tag A,

and at its op wits end to an eye a: formed I at one end o thelprojectilea. The projectile a is formed of any suitable wire, pref-o erab suita 1e length and weight to!oausefift to forward end -is Y B having an opening rel c, the said barrel be" cylindrical in, cross section" and of Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

travel through the air under the force of the ejecting mechanism of the gun, andits t sharply pointed as shown a a For the purpose of attaching the card or ta to a post, tree or other part, I have provi ed' a gun comprisin a projectile bar-rel near'its rear .end to permit the insertion of the projectile af within the barrel B,1and which along its 11 peer and top or'tion is slotted from c opening 6 to t e end of the barrel, as indicated at 'b', the slot permittingthe passage of the flexible cord at with itsattached card or tag as the projectile is: forced along and out ofthe barrel.

Preferably, a spring-ejecting mechanism is employed and comprises a relatively strong helical spring 0 contained in a barc'losed at one end by a plug 0' against \which one end of the spring C finds a beari Arranged to reciprocate in the barrel 0 1s a cylindrical plug 0 having a seat 0" at 'ts rear end which receives the forward en of the spring C, and

under the action of the spring C the plug 0 is forcedalong thebarrel 0. The plug 0 carries a vertically extendinglpostf.D w ich projects above and below t e plug 0 as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawvin s, and which passes thro gu ded by slots 0*, 0. formed in t e barrel 0 at diametrically opposite points, and also the upper end of the D asses into and through a slot 5 in the un er side of the barrel Bdiametrically opposite the slot 6 in said barrel. The slots mina'te at the points 3;) and 1)", thus forming a stop against which the post D comes to rest in its forward movement under the h and is c and a do not extend the full length of the barrels but teraction of the spring 0. The barrels B, c

are assembled as shown in'the drawings, the barrel B being directly overv thebari'el a,

and they' are. mountedin a block or head piece' E in any convenlent or usual manner,

and are further held together by means of the shank e, the threaded end 6' of which engages threaded apertures in the 'aiiijacent parts of the respective barrels (see E is a pivoted dog F, having a beveled and 0st I) when the b ock 0 to retain the block and lower end of the is drawn back an the post D in the position-shown in Fig.2 I V igs. 2 v and-3) Mounted in the block or head piece shouldered end arranged to enga c the'.

- the lower end of the post I), but upon a ull end of the post D by means of a leaf spring I f mounted upon the upper end of a pivoted trigger f which trigger with its rear-end engages the rear end of the dog F. The arrangement is such that the spring'f' no.1- mally holds the dog F- in position to engage of. the trigger f? rearward the dog F wi lbe depressed at its forward end to'release the PQ 4 i In order toprevent the premature and accidental discharge of the projectile from the gun, I have provided a safety" device which, as shown, comprises a cylindrical 'rod Hrarranged beneath and parallel to the-baring bearing in the head c of thetshank c.

rel c, and which at its outer end has aslid- The rod- H is intended to have. a limited sliding movement in its bearing-and at'its rear end it is beveled as shown atgh and projects within a slot orope'ning e of the head block E and beneath the forward end of the trigger 'f, as'shown in Fig. 2' ofthe drawings.

In the position shown in "Fig. 2 the trigger-F cannot be drawn back tore: lease the post D, but. in the position shown in Fig. 3, the. safety device H has been moved toward theforward end of the gun' .so that the trigger may be operated to re- 1 lease the post D and to fire the gunl The safety device H is intendedto be automati-' in Fig.'.2 and this-is accomplished by means of-a light spiralspring it surrounding said j a rod between the bearing k and a pin h on .40

said rod. Forthe purpose of drawing back the block 0 against the tension of the sprin plug 0 backward against the tension of the G to set the gun, I have provided ahan I grip K, which is arranged to slide along the safety rod H, and which has a recess hat its upper rear face in which is a pin 70', whic a's-thehand grip is drawn rearwardly, engages the post D'and forces the spring 0. i I Thegun is provided with a suitable stock L, which may be made of wire, as shown in the drawings, and'one end of which is 'connected to the end of the barrel 0 by a screw Z- and-the other end curved beneath the trig- 1 the head: piece E m advance of the trigger.

ger f to form a ard l and connected to In operation, assuming that the gun has been discharged, it is set for firing by drawing back the hand grip K, thus moving backward the'block 0 against the tension of the spring 0 to the position shown in Fig. 2. and causing the pivoted dog F to engage the lower,end of the .post D. Thereafter the hand grip K may be moved-to any po sition along the safety rod H which may be through the air acting tail 0 e jclaim as new and desire to :ters Patent:

desired. The safety rod H is moved toward the left as shown in: Fig. 2 by means of it's spring h so that its rear beveled end it engages beneath the forward end of the triggerfi. Thereafter the rojectile a is inserted into the barre B through the o ening b, the card or tag A hanging outsi e.

In firing the gun, the hand grip K is moved forward until it engages the pin h, and a further forward movement of the hand grip K compresses the spring h and moves the beveled end of the safety rod H from beneath the trigger. The-trigger may then be pulled rearwardly depressing the forward end of the pivoted dog F, and ermitting the spring 0 to propel the bloc 0 along its barrel 0 and causing the upper end of ,the post D to forcibly eject .the projectile a, from the barrel B. urin this ejection of the projectile the cord a slides along the slot 1), and emerging at the end thereof under the impetus imparted to the projectile, the card or tag A will be carried somewhat like the a kite'or the ather of an arrow, until the projectile reaches and embeds zitself in the mark at which it was fired. Thus the card or tag will be attached to the (mark, such as a post, tree, barn or other @part, where it may be observed by the passiers-by, and because of its flexible connection 11: may have movement under the action of the wind, attracting the attention of the 5 passers-by.

cally thrown to the safety osition shown Having thus. described my invention, I

secure by Let- 1. An advertising device, comprising. a

pointed projectile, a card or tag, a flexible connection between said projectile and the card or tag, a gun for discharging said projectile and its attached card or tag, said gun having a slotted barrel to perm t the card or tag and its attachment to the projectile to 'pass along outside of the gun while the projectile passes through the barrel, a spring barrel below the projectile barrel, a plunger movable in said spring barrel, and a post carried by said plun er, said post proecting intothe pro'ectile arrel and engagmg. the projecti e t erein.

2; An advertisin 'device, comprising a card or tag and a projectile, a flexible connection between the cardor tag and the projectile, a gun provided with a barrel having an openin to admit the projectile thereinto. a slot lea ing from the opening to the end of the barrel, a spring barrel located beneath the projectile barrel a lunger therein rofor orcing theplunger along the spring.

barrel, a hand grip sliding along beneath the springbarrel and arranged to move the plunger toward the pivoted dog, and a safety device for the trigger.

3. A gun for use in attaching advertising cards or tags, comprising a projectilebarrel having an openin to receive the projectile, and a slot leading from said openmg to the end of the barrel, a spring barrel located beneath the projectile. barrel and slotted along its upper and lower surfaces, a registering slot in the projectile barrel, a spring in the spring barrel, a plunger acted upon by the spring and projecting into the projectile barrel and below the spring -barv rel, a pivoted dog arranged to engage the lower end of the plunger, a trigger for releasing the dog,a sliding safety rod beneath the spring barrel arranged to en age the trigger, a spring normally holding the safety rod in engagement with the trigger, and a sliding hand grip adapted to move along the safety rodfor the purpose of moving the plunger along the spring barrel and set the spring and to remove the safety rod from engagement with the trigger.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDREW JL CLARK. 

